10 Completely Original Movies To Look Out For In 2018

3. Early Man

Early Man
Aardman Animations

Release Date: January 26

You can always rely on Aardman to deliver a heart-warming, enjoyable stop-motion-animated romp (their filmography includes Chicken Run, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit and Flushed Away) and 2018's Early Man will hopefully be another hit to follow the studio's impressive line of work.

Early Man is set in the distant past when woolly mammoths roamed the planet, and will follow Dug - a bumbling caveman - as he attempts to save his home by uniting his tribe against Lord Nooth and his Bronze Age City.

The cast list reads like a who's-who of British talent, and will include the likes of Tom Hiddleston, Eddie Redmayne, Maisie Williams and Timothy Spall, and as usual, Aardman has handcrafted each frame with painstaking detail, their fluid stop-motion animation once again on display with an impressive array of character designs and settings.

Early Man promises a funny, easy-to-watch adventure the whole family can enjoy, and since it launches in January, it could be the perfect antidote to all those post-Christmas blues.

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Danny has been with WhatCulture for over ten years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. In 2022, he took charge of WhoCulture and has grown it into the biggest Doctor Who channel on YouTube, and one of the biggest Doctor Who communities on the web full-stop. He has been writing and video editing since his early teens, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers, off the back of a burning obsession with the Matt Smith era of the show. Like many his age, he first got into Doctor Who with the 2005 revival, but has since gone back and fallen in love with the classic years too. If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order, or to give you a random factoid about the making of Gridlock, Danny is the person to ask!